First half of the night: picks. Priority 1, 2, then 3 (FDD, foods + consumables, then GM last). Depending on the amount of staff, and walkie stackers, it's good to have one associate picking from the top steel. I normally have 2 IMS at night and I challenge them to finish floor picks by 1am, then work on top steel picks until they leave to lunch. After 3am, or lunch, binning is in order. First thing is to clear up space to reach your bins. Has all pallet freight from the truck been flown into the steel (e.g. water pallets, feature quantities that are not to be set yet, PDQs) Once you can reach the bins easily I have IMS bin o/s carts before pallets to have more mobility since our BR is small and cramped. Also, to have carts ready for fresh area associates coming in @ 4am [issue is they don't have enough meat/produce carts]. In my store, I have FDD stockers bin their overstock at the end of the night. It's what works best for our setup.
Priority from here is binning grocery. Stockers should have labeled all o/s and pull it to the backroom throughout the night. One IMS bins paper, pets, chem, HBA, cosmetics, and OTC. The other bins 92/95. Then both work together to bin GM at the end. On the odd occasion it is not all binned before 7am? Days IMS will bin it.
I imagine it is the same for all walmarts. As o/n IMS your job is to set up for the following shift. Bin all o/s and clear the floor of pallets to the best of your ability for the 7am picks for day shift.
As management I train then challenge the associates to notice what needs to be binned. You see a random rocket cart of items labeled with different dates? It's likely a pick cart. Has it been worked? If not, pull it to the floor so someone stocks it. Afterwards bin it. No labels on any of the freight? It's probably new freight... Pull it to the floor. All the DC labels say new mod? Question if the mod is set before pulling it to the floor. It still needs to be labeled and binned.
Occasionally management may have a special task of P.O.D. or consolidating top steel pallets, working wacos [hate these things with a passion], auditing departments before picks, etc.
Hopefuly you've been trained on PLE, it's a must for IMS associates. Occasionally you may need to unload a truck throughout the night. Pull down/fly up a pallet from top steel, use a scissor lift to get a bike, or operate the forklift to take salt pallets/fertilizer/mulch to garden center steel.